guest   invited   at  calem    2010  (archives below)

• - HM2F   (france)

HM2F wants to offer a chance our sister organizations to work together, on a solid ground and respectful relationship.
HM2F used to be a Muslim group; since January 2010 is it a very active non-profit independant organization.

• - The  inner  circle    (south africa)

• - trans  aide    (france)

Trans Aide is a French transidentitary organization, that help HM2F organizing that first conference. They want to learn more about Islam and they have among them queer Muslims, also questionning their identity, sexuality and gender.

• - merhaba   (belgium)

• Merhaba is an association that has been working for almost ten years, to advise and support queer Muslims, respecting each and every one point of view.
  This association is incorporated into the Muslim community in Belgium.

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• - amnesty  international  (france)
• - bedaaya    (egypt-sudan)
  

• - omnia   (belgium)
• - a.m.ho     (spain)

• - kif-kif   (marocco)

 

CAlem  2011  guests  &  global  context,  click  here

2010  queer  muslims'  international political  context           (archives below)

We think that queer Muslims need to inform the Muslim community about who LGBTQIA individuals are really are; we shall all together, adopt a common long term strategy to fight for our rights and human dignity!

 

At the French National Assembly on the 17^th of may 2010, HM2F and imam Tarek Oubrou – a French Theologian very well known for his Islamic progressive values concerning women and now LGBT individuals – confirmed that nowhere in the Quran nor in the Sunnah homosexuality is condemned by nature, that homophobia is against the Islamic ethic!

For HM2F, it means that our long term strategy is working, as a Muslim group and now as an official queer Muslim strong and well built organization. Hence for almost 15 years, TIC has been working conscientiously to open the path for queer Muslims around the World. At the last AIR | 2010 – the 7th annual international retreat, in South Africa – around ten nationalities were represented. Today, The Inner Circle is expanding its mentorship, also throughout Europe.

 

There is several ways to build that common international umbrella. It appears that we have to proceed through regional networking first, before gathering again in Cape Town next year to talk common long term strategy. HM2F wants to give the foot to its sister European organizations that have to be informed on the basis of trust and total transparency, rather than follow other’s project they know nothing about (…).

Thus, on autumn 2010 HM2F and TIC gathered for the first time our sister organizations in Paris on October the 9^th and 10^th, to talk together mainly with imam Muhsin Hendricks – from The Inner Circle, and its project of an international queer Muslim umbrella – about the best way to free our people from stigma, violence and discrimination!

We all have different histories and different background; our TAQWAH is the strength of our faith. Our differences are a human holy treasure! As queer Muslims, it is the basis of our common progressive Muslim values... HM2F thinks that each organization ought to stay free; nobody has to take the lead upon others. Organizing parties and conferences is good, but never forget that our brothers and sisters are suffering, they need us now! 

Today for us it is obvious that LGBTQIA organizations are at the forefront of an emerging truly inclusive Islam.

CALEM 2010  -  long  term  cooperation  proposal  (archives below)

    We would like to share with all our sister organizations, our information concerning several organizations' proposal concerning a long term hypothetical cooperation (p.2 of the program):